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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Caring for children The News International, January 28, 2008 www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=93308 This article has been archived by World Street Children News
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 June 2011] The rise in incidents of street
crime in Plight of street children worsens The Nation, [accessed 1 July 2011] [scroll down] The report indicated that street
children are the victims of unplanned economic growth, war, poverty, domestic
violence and the violence at schools and madrassas,
he said. It was mentioned that
majority of street children are in the age of 13 to 18 years (79.03%)
followed by those in the age group of 9 to 12 years (15.22%) and up to 8
years old (5.71%). Most of them belong to Punjabi community followed by Urdu,
Pashto, Burmese and Bengalese. The research revealed that majority of street
children is either orphans or affectees of broken
families Majority of street children use
drugs as 92% of them admitted that they use various kinds of drugs however 8%
denied any use of drugs at any stage of their lives. About 75% of the
respondents admitted that they smoke cigarettes, 70% use charas,
66% inhale glue and I5% use heroine. After having drug a majority of 66%
respondents admitted experiencing violence. Depression is very common among
street children and, while talking about the high occurrence of physical,
emotional and sexual violence, 66% of the respondents admitted that they
self-inflected themselves while 26% denied and 8% didnt
give any response. About 85% cut with blades and knives while 15% burn
themselves. Street Children and child abuse The Justice tjfpk.tripod.com/children.html [accessed 1 July 2011] While most child workers have
homes to return, the street children are completely alone and at the mercy of
their employers, and circumstances night and day. Their number of meals is
one to three daily, often getting leftover from the restaurants and eating-places
in the areas they hang around. Many are also found in the vicinity of
religious shrines where people donate food for the poor. ***
ARCHIVES *** A Video Playlist
for Playlist developed by Brian Horne of
almudo.com & streetkidnews.blogsome.com www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A41572E6D3839140 [accessed 26 September 2011] There are an increasing number of
street children videos now available that constitute a supplementary source
of information for researchers, especially for those who may not have
experienced the reality of street children. UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/pakistan.html [accessed 1 July 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/pakistan.htm [accessed 15 December 2010] CURRENT GOVERNMENT
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The provincial government of the Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61710.htm [accessed 15 December 2010] CHILDREN - According to a foreign aid organization,
of the 18 million children between the ages of 5 and 9, only 42 percent were
in school. Less than half of children who enrolled completed more than five
years of education. Out of every 100 children who enrolled, only 6 completed
grade 12. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 October 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/pakistan2003.html [accessed 15 December 2010] [78] The Committee expresses its
concern at the increasing number of street children and the vulnerability of
these children to violence, torture, sexual abuse and exploitation, the lack
of a systematic and comprehensive strategy to address the situation and
protect these children, and the very poor registration of missing children by
the police. The brave tender souls Experience by Salman Nizami, Greater www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2010/Oct/28/the-brave-tender-souls-14.asp
[accessed Oct. 29, 2010] The weather has suddenly turned
colder in valley. The sun is hidden behind the clouds and the jagged peaks of
the mountains which overlook the city are thick with snow. The street
children are sheltering from the chill - huddling in doorways. One boy I
often see in the morning charging around near the guest house in Shalimar
where I was stayed covers his head with his ragged and blackened jacket to
give himself some relief from the cold. There are numerous children who wait
outside the guest house hoping for some work with me on the laptop, According
to them working on laptop means earning good money. Most of them are contract
labourers, shoe shiners, handicraft, fruit,
vegetable vendor boys and I have got to know a number of them. There is Ibrahim
whose serious face contrasts with his pink Mickey Mouse baseball cap, and Irfaan who is painfully thin, and constantly asks the
same question: "Mister, how are you?" And then there is Wajid, with his brown curly mop of hair and cheeky smile.
My favourite is Aabid, a
shy boy, who talks slowly in Kashmiri language. His sombre
expression belies his young age just 13. They all have similar tales, a father
dead due to the Male prostitution, a hidden shame: See no evil, hear no
evil, speak no evil Fawad Ali Shah, Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\01\13\story_13-1-2009_pg12_9 [accessed 30 June 2011] Despite the fact that the
phenomenon is increasing by the minute, no government body or NGO has
conducted a survey to find out exactly how many men are in this business. However, he said that there was a
need for the collection of the exact numbers of males in the prostitution
business as well as their customers to spread awareness about the diseases
that sprout from the phenomenon. “There are almost 30,000 street children in
the country, who are usually the victims of sexual abuse, as time progresses
these children are so used to being exploited that they decide to use the
exploitation to earn quick money,” he added. Male-prostitutes are without a
doubt spreading many diseases however, no one cares about it, as the issue
for most people is non-existent, Dharejo adds. Development: Protecting Syed Mohammad Ali, Daily Times,
December 09, 2008 www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\09\story_9-12-2008_pg3_3 [accessed 1 July 2011] HIV/AIDS increasing in country Amer Malik,
The News International, www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=149992&Cat=5&dt=11/30/2008 [accessed 30 June 2011] Most of the 15,000-20,000
estimated child sex workers present in Though the trend of selling organs
(kidney.) for cash does not seem to have caught hold in Lahore or was not
reported, quite a few children were aware of the fact that they could sell
their blood for money if the need arose. The limited blood screening
facilities make such practice extremely unsafe and can spread HIV/AIDS on a rapid
scale. Though not a single child admitted to resorting to this practice, they
had come to know about this through adult drug addicts. In Pakistan, the estimated
population aged below 18 years is 71 million, and 3.6 million children are
involved in child labour. About 1.2 million children are on the streets in
Pakistan’s large cities, working as beggars, vendors or shoeshine boys. Incidents of child abuse rarely reported Irfan Aligi,
Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\11\04\story_4-11-2008_pg12_11 [accessed 30 June 2011] “We have conducted a study on violence
against street children and the data we have collected is quite shocking, and
what is most appalling is that children studying at religious seminaries also
fall victim to sexual violence,” claimed Habib. He
added that it is common practice amongst parents, especially from the lower
strata of the society, prefer to send their children to Madressahs
as compared to formal schooling systems. According to the study, 21 percent
of Madressah students have been sexually abused by
their teachers. Fifty-two percent of students were sexually harassed, 28
percent had complained of unpleasant touching and 20 percent complained of
forced sex, said Habib. Almost ninety percent of sexually
violent acts against children occur on the streets, seven percent of the children
denied any sexual abuse on the streets and three percent of these children
had no idea about any such happenings. Thirty-three percent of the children
who were sexually abused on the streets revealed that they were abused by
people in police departments, while 22 percent of them held workers of
political, social and religious parties responsible, claimed Habib. This is not the end of the
shocking list, as shopkeepers, strangers, gang leaders, private security
guards and drivers were also held responsible for sexual violence. Twenty
percent of the children reported that 20 percent of strangers, 12 percent of
shopkeepers, 11 percent of gang leaders, 14 percent of private security
guards and 22 percent drivers were among the perpetuators of sexual violence
against them. – sccp Child abuse mushrooming as shops offering ‘services’
spring up Qadeer Hussain,
The News International, thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=144233&Cat=4&dt=11/1/2008 [accessed 30 June 2011] Tauqeer went to school for a while but
soon developed a habit of running away from home. In the beginning, he
started selling tissue papers at Sea View and earned Rs100 to Rs120 daily. However, two years ago, one of his friends,
Naveed (not his real name) asked him to visit Jahangir Park, near the Pedestrian Bridge, (which does
not exist now), “to earn more money.”
According to Tauqeer, the world of the
Pedestrian Bridge “was altogether a different world.” This was the meeting
point for male child prostitutes and their clients. According to Tauqeer,
more than 300 children are engaged in this area alone. “There are two
categories of children involved. A majority are street children who earn their livelihood through this mean. Then
there are kids who belong to poor families and visit the bridge to earn some
extra money,” he says. –
sccp Two million youth in [accessed 1 July 2011] In UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80510 [accessed 1 July 2011] Asif, 16, was among 53
"lost" boys, aged between eight and 16, who boarded the bus on the
morning of 16 August to return to his parents' house. Asif remembers he had four siblings
and cannot wait to go home. "I think I will be able to recognise them once I see them," he says. But he was
just nine when he got lost, in a market, and eventually found himself in
Karachi. NUMBERS RISING - Social workers say Pakistan has
a large population of runaway or lost kids, estimating their number at more
than 70,000. Navaid Hasan
Khan of Azad Foundation, an organisation
working with street children, estimates there are between 13,000 and 15,000
in Karachi alone and the number is increasing. The UN Children's Fund,
UNICEF, estimates there are 10,000 in Karachi. Many of the parents who took back
the children "were ecstatic to see them, but they told us they will send
them back to us as it means one less mouth to feed", he said. 'Rat people' forced to beg on Agence France-Presse
AFP, afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOmE7u7DlUpw1GwT37ut9uc1xf7A [accessed 15 December 2010] "Some of these children, the
handicapped ones especially, are accompanied by relatives," he told AFP.
"But begging gangs also look for poor parents who will sell them because
they are a burden to feed and shelter."
Sohail said his department had busted more
than 30 gangs across the province involved in exploiting street children, some of which had broken the limbs of children
so that they would earn more as beggars. – htsc Deadly ‘token’ heroin emerges as DAWN/The News International, www.karachipage.com/news/Jul_08/070308.html#heroin [accessed 1 July 2011] Over the past four months, newly-introduced
cheap, substandard heroin has proved to be fatal to child drug addicts on the
streets. The new brand of heroin, also known among the children as “token” or
“Sanghara,” is widely available throughout the city
at Rs12 per sachet. Children who
previously used the well-known glue Samad Bond are
the biggest “token” addicts. They can no longer afford Samad
Bond. A pack that cost Rs75 in 2000 is now being traded at Rs170. “What other choice have I got?” says Tufail, a child on the streets who switched to token
after the price of Samad Bond went up. Token is the cheapest option available. It
is also one of the most lethal. According to a spokesman of the Edhi Foundation, children living on the streets who are
also drug addicts die before reaching the age of 23. Over the past six
months, he said, 145 bodies of heroin addicts had been picked up off the
streets. Forty percent were children. City faces alarming rise in addicts, juvenile beggars Shafi Baloch,
The Nation, [accessed 1 July 2011] Owing to the rampant unemployment
of their parents due to off-fishing season, a number of fishermen’s children
have started involving in begging and drug trafficking and this trend has
resulted in a sharp rise in the number street children making their
percentage up to 40 % in the metropolitan. acr.hrschool.org/mainfile.php/0228/461/ [accessed 1 July 2011] An estimated 1.2 million children
are on the streets of "World Vision is gravely
concerned with their growing numbers. Children are turningto
the streets amidst increasing poverty, unemployment, swelling family size and
social disintegration seen in abuse in schools, as well as domestic violence,
neglect and family breakdown," said World Vision Country Director, Sigurd Hanson. "Street wise" as early
as four, these children beg and scavenge around rubbish dumps or industrial
waste sites or take on menial jobs as cart pushers or dish washers, working
12-15 hours a day to earn around 75 rupees or US.25- enough to buy a meal if
they are fortunate. Most survive by prostituting themselves, stealing or
smuggling, making them vulnerable to contracting sexually transmitted
infections, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Jaundice and liver or kidney disorders. A
large proportion sniffs cheap, readily available solvents to starve off
hunger, loneliness and fear. Street Children and child abuse The Justice tjfpk.tripod.com/children.html [accessed 1 July 2011] While most child workers have
homes to return, the street children are completely alone and at the mercy of
their employers, and circumstances night and day. Their number of meals is
one to three daily, often getting leftover from the restaurants and eating-places
in the areas they hang around. Many are also found in the vicinity of
religious shrines where people donate food for the poor. Seminar on corporal punishment: 35,000 school students
drop out every year Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\05\01\story_1-5-2008_pg11_4 [accessed 1 July 2011] Thirty-five thousand students drop
out of high school every year in the country due to corporal punishment in
schools and homes, said Qindeel Shujaat,
Executive Director, Society for Protection of Rights of the Child (SPARC), in
a seminar “Media Consultation on Child Rights and Protection Issues” on
Wednesday. Shujaat said corporal punishment in
schools and homes, a culturally accepted form of child abuse, had resulted in
high dropout rate from schools and ever-growing number of runaway children on
the streets. Shujaat
said Plight of street children worsens The Nation, [accessed 1 July 2011] [scroll down] The report indicated that street
children are the victims of unplanned economic growth, war, poverty, domestic
violence and the violence at schools and madrassas,
he said. It was mentioned that majority
of street children are in the age of 13 to 18 years (79.03%) followed by
those in the age group of 9 to 12 years (15.22%) and up to 8 years old
(5.71%). Most of them belong to Punjabi community followed by Urdu, Pashto,
Burmese and Bengalese. The research revealed that majority of street children
is either orphans or affectees of broken families Majority of street children use
drugs as 92% of them admitted that they use various kinds of drugs however 8%
denied any use of drugs at any stage of their lives. About 75% of the
respondents admitted that they smoke cigarettes, 70% use charas,
66% inhale glue and I5% use heroine. After having drug a majority of 66%
respondents admitted experiencing violence. Depression is very common among
street children and, while talking about the high occurrence of physical,
emotional and sexual violence, 66% of the respondents admitted that they
self-inflected themselves while 26% denied and 8% didnt
give any response. About 85% cut with blades and knives while 15% burn themselves. 25,000 street children vulnerable to diseases The News International, 08 April 2008 www.apnakarachi.com/25000-street-children-vulnerable-to-diseases.html [accessed 1 July 2011] They urged the government to
create awareness on HIV and Aids and other sex related diseases to save
street children. Speakers said more
than 25,000 children were living on streets in the city. They said there were
some 70,000 children living on the streets in the country. An estimated 7,000
children live on the streets in Lahore, 10,000 in Faisalabad, 2,500 in Quetta, 3,000 in Rawalpindi and
5,000 in Peshawar. Nazra
Jahan of Sparc said
street children were one of the most vulnerable groups for all forms of
exploitation. They were at high risk of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV
and AIDS because of their early exposure to both heterosexual and homosexual
practices. Caring for children The News International, January 28, 2008 www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=93308 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 June 2011] The rise in incidents of street
crime in Children on an empty stomach on empty streets Amar Guriro,
Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\12\31\story_31-12-2007_pg12_4 [accessed 1 July 2011] At a time when all the commerce in
9,000 sexually-abused street-children in City www.chowk.com/applefire/iLogs/life/Child-prostitution-in-Pakistan [accessed 30 June 2011] UNICEF Programme
Officer Shamshad Qureshi
announced the results of a UNICEF survey that there are 10, 000 street
children in School with no buildings gives hope Umber Khairi, BBC News, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7028159.stm [accessed 1 July 2011] Tucked away in a quiet corner in
the Pakistani city of City centres thronged by street
children Terence J Sigamony, Daily Times,
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\10\01\story_1-10-2007_pg11_8 [accessed 1 July 2011] Children at Pirwadahi
and Faizabad are living in unhygienic and squalid
conditions. They live in under-construction buildings, hotel basements and
verandas of bus stands. Majority of such children has come to the city with
expectations to fend for themselves or their families through various
occupations but after arriving here, they discovered that streets were not
paved with gold. Saiqa Ashraf,
a psychologist working on child sexual abuse, said these children become
criminals, terrorists, revolutionaries, drug addicts and abusers. “They are
starving and ignorant, destined to become thieves or victims of child sexual
abuse. The girls become prostitutes but there is also male prostitution. The
boys are uncontrollably violent and have lost the ability to feel emotions
such as love. For the most part they are amoral,” she commented. Curbing beggary among children: CDGR to open seven child
protection centres Terence J Sigamony, Daily Times,
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\08\28\story_28-8-2007_pg11_5 [accessed 1 July 2011] The City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) with the help of the Shelter for street children arranged The News International, August 26, 2007 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 1 July 2011] A local NGO Sehar
foundation has arranged temporary shelters for the protection of street
children against torrential rains at different marriage halls in The management of these halls not
only agreed that their spaces be used for this purpose but also took upon the
responsibility to arrange meals for these children. Pakistan has highest infant mortality rate in South Asia:
SPARC Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\06\30\story_30-6-2007_pg7_23 [accessed 1 July 2011] The report gave a dark picture of
the Pakistani children’s condition. About 6.463 million children did not go
to school, which was the second largest number of such children in a country,
it said. In Karachi alone the number of street children was 25,000 and almost
four children were sexually molested daily. Pahchaan planning drop-in centre for
street kids Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\05\16\story_16-5-2007_pg7_37 [accessed 1 July 2011] Dr Naeem
Zafar, president of Pehchaan,
said the NGO was providing several services including food and shelter, skill
building courses, hygiene courses, rest and recreation, psycho-social
counselling, detoxification and legal protection. Also, the organisation was educating 200 street
and working children in the city. Police encouraged to cooperate with street children The News International, This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] A situation analysis of Horrific fate awaits children spurned by society Aroosa Masroor
Khan, The News, www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=43990 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
Consequently, an increasing trend
in sex exploitation was also witnessed over the years. As disclosed by the
street children near Bahadurabad and Allahwala Chowrangi, they
continue to be harassed and sexually abused at the hands of passers-by. Due
to this fear, these children prefer spending most of their time at drop-in centres that are operational during the day. “We feel
more scared at night because that is when truck drivers and policemen harass
us, but this centre is helpful because they teach us self-defence
techniques,” says 13-year-old Umair Ali who has
been living on the street for four years after he ran away from home because
his family pressurised him to get a job. Most of the children, spotted in Saddar, Karimabad, Tariq Road, Kala Pul and parts of Clifton, when refused job opportunities,
resort to pick-pocketing or sell sex for their day-to-day survival. The money
earned is then spent on addictives like cigarettes, drugs and inhalants,
mostly glues such as ‘Samad Bond’. “There are a lot
of small hotels and restaurants that offer us food so that is never an issue
for us. We don’t earn to make a living. The streets are where we spend our
lives. It’s the drugs we need money for,” adds Umair,
who further revealed that he was addicted to glue sniffing, a habit he is
unwilling to give up. –
htsccp Findings show dismal state of children in country Mohammad Kamran, Daily Times, www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\02\19\story_19-2-2007_pg11_1 [accessed 2 July 2011] Child rights groups have estimated
that over 50,000 children live on the streets of Many street children are also
addicted to drugs and have been sexually assaulted. It has been reported that
56 percent of street children run away from their homes due to domestic
violence, 22 percent because of hostile behaviour
of their parents and 12 percent due to their parents’ drug addiction. Parents renting children out to gangs: Report Internews, This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] Referring to such reports, he said
as early as four, these children beg and scavenge around rubbish dumps or
industrial waste sites and took on menial jobs as cart-pushers or dishwashers
working 12-15 hours a day to earn around Rs75 — enough to buy a meal. A report compiled by the Society
for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc)
said most children survive by prostituting themselves and stealing, making
them vulnerable to contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as
HIV/Aids. “They are also at high risk
from health problems such as tuberculosis, jaundice and kidney disorders.” The report suggests that 83 per
cent of street children were sniffing glue between the ages of eight to
nineteen. Some 54 per cent left home at age 10-12 while 45 per cent children living
on the streets are involved in crimes and 49 per cent are at high risk of
HIV/Aids. Waheed Khan, Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/2007/01/08/idUSISL114216 [accessed 2 July 2011] The Pakistan Medical Association
says substance abuse among street children has reached alarming levels. "If more is not done soon, Pakistan is
heading for a street children hooked on glue crisis on the scale of other
countries like Morocco and Brazil," said Qaiser
Sajjad, the association's general-secretary. There
are about 14,000 street children in Karachi and most are sniffing glue, said Aksa Zainab, a social worker
who helps street kids at a drop-in centre operated by the Azad
Foundation in cooperation with UNICEF. Vulnerable and helpless on the street Amir Zia, The
News International, December 20, 2006 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] A majority of them are drug
addicts. The most popular and affordable of the durg
is a type of glue -- used mostly in home repair and maintenance -- which
these children inhale by putting it on a piece of cloth. One can see young
boys sniffing this glue openly on the streets and pavements that according to
one user, "tingles nose and make one slightly drowsy." The use of
other drugs including hashish, and even heroin are also rampant among many of
these streets children. Organised gangs of criminals -- peddling
drugs or operating begging rackets -- take these children under their wings
and use them in criminal activities. Many children also resort on their own
to begging and petty crimes, raising enough money to buy themselves food and favourite drug. Govt, masses urged to rehabilitate
street urchins www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=34580 [Last access date unavailable] Recalling an incident where a
child was abducted from Data Darbar and admitted to
a hospital, he said that one kidney of the child was removed in an operation.
The matter was being probed by the authorities concerned, but the society at
large was responsible for such incident. Mary de Sousa, United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF, www.unicef.org/infobycountry/pakistan_36506.html [accessed 2 July 2011] Rehan, who may be “nearly 18,” does not
have the physique of a teenage boy. That’s because Rehan
is actually Rehana, a girl disguised as a boy to
survive on the streets of Heera Mandi,
Lahore’s red-light district. “Can you
imagine what would happen to me if I dressed as a girl?” she asks. Street children in Pakistan at risk of contracting Aids Internews, This article has been archived by World Street Children News
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] The phenomenon of street children
in www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1383624 [accessed 2 July 2011] “Street wise” as early as four, these
children beg and scavenge around rubbish dumps or industrial waste sites or
take on menial jobs as cart pushers or dish washers, working 12-15 hours a
day to earn around 75 rupees or US$1.25- enough to buy a meal if they are
fortunate. Most survive by
prostituting themselves, stealing or smuggling, making them vulnerable to
contracting sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Jaundice
and liver or kidney disorders. A large
proportion sniffs cheap, readily available solvents to starve off hunger,
loneliness and fear. Number of street children on the
rise acr.hrschool.org/mainfile.php/0236/483/ [accessed 2 July 2011] Living on the rough and tumble
streets of Indo-Asian News Service IANS, 5/8/2005 citynewslive.com/fullstory2k5-insight-news-status-24-newsID-3716.html [accessed 2 July 2011] Poverty and domestic physical and
mental abuse "are the key factors that lead children to begin a life on
the streets. Be it economic or social
factors, street children leave their homes for an uncertain future. Many find work collecting waste paper,
cleaning cars, working as shoe shiners or in small eateries. Some fall back on begging, pick-pocketing
or offer themselves to sex perverts, while others end up as drug
addicts. They use inhalants that are
cheap and easily available but cause irreversible brain damage. Street Freedom - Mohammad Anwar, DAWN, 12
December 2002 www.paklinks.com/gs/culture-literature-and-linguistics/81843-hired-for-a-massage.html [accessed 22 August 2011] [posted Dec 13th, 2002, 06:22 PM] Thirteen year-old Zahid spends his nights at Cantt
railway station in Thousands of Ahmad Naeem Khan, OneWorld South Asia, This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] They may not have access to drugs
like heroin and marijuana, but that doesn't stop thousands of street children
in Information about Street Children - This report is taken from “A Civil Society Forum for South
Asia on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Street Children”, 12- 14
December 2001, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] Street Children and Juvenile Justice in Pervaiz Tufail
(AMAL Human Development Network) with the assistance of Thomas Feeny and Marie Wernham
(Consortium for Street Children CSC), Spring 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 July 2011] In his trial, Iqbal made a point
of claiming that as no one ever notices when a street child disappears, he could
have gone on to kill 500 before anyone took action. The revelation of Iqbal's
horrific crimes, committed with two teen accomplices, woke up human rights
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